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author | Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2009-01-15 13:50:59 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-15 16:39:37 -0800 |
commit | 45ce80fb6b6f9594d1396d44dd7e7c02d596fef8 (patch) | |
tree | 2409270f7073c08329ac01c82df0509a264af48c /Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt | |
parent | 23964d2d02984d44aeb2d84d7ffb3359e728df43 (diff) |
cgroups: consolidate cgroup documents
Move Documentation/cpusets.txt and Documentation/controllers/* to
Documentation/cgroups/
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt')
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1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..bb775fbe43d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +CPU Accounting Controller +------------------------- + +The CPU accounting controller is used to group tasks using cgroups and +account the CPU usage of these groups of tasks. + +The CPU accounting controller supports multi-hierarchy groups. An accounting +group accumulates the CPU usage of all of its child groups and the tasks +directly present in its group. + +Accounting groups can be created by first mounting the cgroup filesystem. + +# mkdir /cgroups +# mount -t cgroup -ocpuacct none /cgroups + +With the above step, the initial or the parent accounting group +becomes visible at /cgroups. At bootup, this group includes all the +tasks in the system. /cgroups/tasks lists the tasks in this cgroup. +/cgroups/cpuacct.usage gives the CPU time (in nanoseconds) obtained by +this group which is essentially the CPU time obtained by all the tasks +in the system. + +New accounting groups can be created under the parent group /cgroups. + +# cd /cgroups +# mkdir g1 +# echo $$ > g1 + +The above steps create a new group g1 and move the current shell +process (bash) into it. CPU time consumed by this bash and its children +can be obtained from g1/cpuacct.usage and the same is accumulated in +/cgroups/cpuacct.usage also. |